Treatment:
Hold ear over a cloth wrung out of hot water on which is sprinkled some pure alcohol.
With a medicine dropper, drop into ear some warm olive oil; or saturate a small piece of absorbent cotton with the warm olive oil, and place in ear—cover with dry cotton.
(Mothers often use one drop of laudanum in the olive oil, but laudanum is too dreadful a poison for children to handle.)
For watery discharge after earache, it is best to see a doctor, but a sprinkling of boric acid in the ear will usually relieve the trouble.
If earache recurs often, see the doctor.
For Insect in the Ear
Drown insect by filling ear with warm olive oil.
(Mothers sometimes pour a little pure alcohol into the ear to drown and shrink insect.)